Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Philosophical

“To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.”

Law Natural Unjust

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Angry

“Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.”

Hate Violence Destruction

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Courageous

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”

Way Justice Violence

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Love

“So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.”

Inspirational Jesus Love You

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Courageous

“Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.”

Men Years White Man

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Hopeful

“I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.”

Men War Dream

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Sad

“People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”

People Understanding Ill Will

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Courageous

“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.”

Faces Masters Cowardice

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Adventurous

“We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters”

Brother Air Sea

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Philosophical

“Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.”

Wisdom Kingdoms Synthesis

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Hopeful

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.”

Inspiration Faith Breaking Silence

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Hopeful

“There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.”

Humans Human Nature Goodness

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